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1) The Odyssey
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English
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"Odysseus--soldier, sailor, trickster, and everyman--is one of the most recognizable characters in world literature. His arduous, ten-year journey home after the Trojan War, the subject of Homer's Odyssey, is the most accessible tale to survive from ancient Greece, and its impact is still felt today across many different cultures. This lively free verse translation, from one of today's leading Homeric scholars, preserves the clarity and simplicity...
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[2014], c1981
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English
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How does justice really work in the United States? Who has knowledge of the law, access to the legal system, and the will and power to use it? Anthropologist Laura Nader's field trip to a Zapotec village in Mexico during the late 1950s led her to study problem-solving in the local courts. There, "little injustices" were the meat of everyday courtroom life - and that the emphasis was on balanced solutions rather than on blaming a guilty party. In the...
Pub. Date
[2014], c1981
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English
Description
Dadi is the grandmother, or, as she explains, the "manager" of an extended family living in the Haryana region of Northern India. Women here leave their natal villages and come as strangers to the households of their husband's parents. This film explores the extended family and its problems, particularly through the women of Dadi's family. Going by the age-old Indian belief that the larger the family the more the hands to help, Dadi runs her household...
Pub. Date
[2014], c1980
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English
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Although written documents record more than 350 years of events in North America, they reveal little about what everyday life was like. The three segments of this magazine-format film explore the current work of historical archaeologists at three sites across the United States. Details of peoples' lives are revealed in excavations at slave quarters on St. Simon Island, slag heaps in northern California mining towns occupied between 1859 and 1902,...
Pub. Date
[2014], c1981
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English
Description
The Ancient Mariners follows nautical archaeologists as they excavate three shipwrecks in the depths of the Eastern Mediterranean and as they analyze their finds in the laboratory. The three ships, dating from before 300 B.C. to 1025 A.D., tell the story of a significant change in the methods of ship construction - a change reflecting broader alterations in social, economic, and political conditions. Distributed by PBS Distribution.
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[2013], c1980
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English
Description
Travel back 900 years to uncover the puzzling sophistication and technological genius of the Chaco Canyon inhabitants. How did this civilization build complex and comprehensive projects such as a network of roads connecting 70 outlying communities? Anthropologists believe the Chaco civilization was an ingenious technological society that subsequently collapsed because of the gradual depletion of its resource bases.
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[2013], c1980
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English
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Who were the first Americans, and when did they arrive? Archaeologists from Texas to Alaska share their search for answers, based on evidence that the first Americans may have arrived 20,000 to 30,000 years ago. The controversial origin of Clovis Man and the Stone Age culture of New Mexico, circa 11,000 B.C., provoke debate: was this culture developed within a preexisting population or brought via the Bering Strait land bridge from Asia? Distributed...
Pub. Date
[2013], c1981
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English
Description
Myths and the Moundbuilders uncovers the mystery that troubled American settlers in the great river valleys of the Midwest and Southeast. What were those many earth mounds dotting the wooded landscape? The relationship between the mounds and Indian descendants was finally established in 1897 by Cyrus Thomas, who suggested that not all the mounds were built by the same Indian tribes - a theory supported by new evidence.
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[2014], c1979
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English
Description
On the Indonesian island of Bali, the arts permeate almost every aspect of daily life - attempts to please the gods and placate demons. Much of human effort is directed toward these attempts, and the pinnacle of such efforts is the ritual Eka Dasa Rudra, held once every hundred years and involving the entire population of the island. There is also a political dimension to Eka Dasa Rudra. In 1963, upon the urging of then-President Sukarno, Balinese...
Series
Odyssey of life volume pt. 2
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
Description
Featuring the work of famed microcinematographer Lennart Nilsson, The unknown world reveals the varieties of microorganisms that exist undetected in the daily lives of humans.
12) The odyssey
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2012.
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English
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"Odysseus...faces storm and shipwreck, terrifying monsters and the fury of the sea god Poseidon, as he makes his epic journey home from the Trojan War. It takes him ten years."--Dust jacket.
15) The Odyssey
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[2005], c1999
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English
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It is said that every road movie and novel about a defining journey owes a debt to the Odyssey. This imaginative program uses the poem's division into groupings of books as a framework to allow Dr. Tom Winnifrith, of Warwick University; Dr. Douglas Cairns, of Leeds University; and Ken Dowden, senior lecturer at Birmingham University, to analyze the oral tradition and key elements of the story line. Readings and dramatizations from the Odyssey enhance...
Pub. Date
[2011], c1994
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English
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This episode of Ancient Mysteries brings us back more than 3,000 years to the legendary city of Troy. Scholars delve into the secrets of Troy by researching the Greek poet Homer, who related the city's history in The Iliad. Their discoveries are revealed and shed new light on the legends of the Trojan horse, Achilles, the abduction of Helen, and the fall of Troy.
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
Description
The crew must decide whether to continue their mission to Pluto,where they plan to build a space telescope to probe the far reaches of the Universe, and to look for other planets that might sustain life. Before returning home though, Pegasus has one last objective, to investigate a comet for signs of life, as comets are thought to carry the building blocks of life. But the last exploration of the mission might also be their last as, quite suddenly,...
18) Plant Odysseys
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
Description
There are some 300,000 species of flowering plant on Earth. A small number have so captivated humans across the ages that they have become iconic. This series explores the biological and botanical history of four iconic plants, tracing each species' epic journey across millennia. Part 1 investigates the co-evolution of the iris and its pollinators, its symbolism in Greek mythology, and 19th century bearded varieties that inspired amateur breeders....
Pub. Date
[2012], c1988
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English
Description
Having escaped from the Cyclops, the Greeks are made welcome by Aeolus, King of the Winds, who gives Odysseus a bag of winds that would otherwise blow him off course. Within sight of Ithaca and overcome by distrust, his men open the bag to see what treasures Odysseus is hiding. The ensuing storm takes them to the Island of Circe, the sorceress who drugs men and turns them into swine. Through the intervention of Hermes, messenger of the gods, Odysseus...
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